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A small tear appeared in her nail. Monica had no idea how it had happened. Over the course of a week it split the index nail right down the center, all the way down to the nail bed.
Her mother told her not to worry because there was nothing to be done about it. She wrapped a band-aid around the finger, and that was all. Her father, a successful practitioner in his own medical office, said that no doctor would tell Monica to do anything different than what her mother had done.
Even her best friend Jenny said to stop picking at it in the English class note passed from hand to hand. When Monica looked back at her friend she saw the shapely profile of Jenny’s nose leaning over the aisle to catch the page number in a neighbor’s book as her trembling hands flipped it to the same.
So Monica kept it to herself when the two nail halves began to curl under themselves. Monica soon discovered that, besides the tenderness of her exposed nailbed, she could feel a sort of vibration in the objects she touched. The more Monica tried to concentrate on the vibrations, the deeper red the curled nail sections steadily became, making it appear as though a flower wanted to sprout from her pointer finger. She sometimes wondered if that was not the case.
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